Details have finally been revealed about how two men died in a crash on a summer's day on the A1 last year.

An inquest held in Lincoln has today, Tuesday, March 5 heard that a lorry driver was killed and his passenger fatally injured after he ploughed into the back of a stationary HGV on the A1 at 55mph.

It remains a mystery why he did not brake - or why apparently neither he nor his passenger saw the slow-moving traffic building ahead of them.

The inquest heard that Bulent Ozberk, 57, was probably distracted and failed to see that traffic was slowing and stopping ahead of him at Little Ponton due to tailbacks from a crash involving a bus and a car at Colsterworth.

The cab of his 18 tonne DAF truck was crushed and he was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple injuries.

The scene of the crash on the A1 at Colsterworth

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His seriously injured passenger Salman Yilmaz, 53, also from London, was cut free from the wreckage and airlifted to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where he died eight days later from multiple organ failure.

The crash happened on the southbound carriageway of the A1 at about 3pm on July, 2, 2018.

An inquest at Lincoln Cathedral Centre heard evidence from driver David Douglas whose lorry Mr Ozberk crashed into the back of, which in turn crashed into a lorry in front.

Mr Douglas, who was transporting insulation from Derbyshire to Essex at the time, said: "I remember going under a bridge and coming to the brow of a hill and seeing brake lights being applied about a quarter of a mile up ahead of me.

"I realised vehicles were slowing and putting their hazards on. I was in lane one and in front of me was a vehicle carrying concrete blocks.

"I came to a stop behind this vehicle when I was hit from behind.

"I was thrown backwards and forwards in my seat and my head hit the roof with some force.

"I remember bits of plastic flying past my cab."

Mr Douglas complained of pain to his head and a shoulder and was taken in an ambulance to Peterborough General Hospital after suffering some soft tissue damage.

He said: "I saw that the vehicle was an 18-tonne refrigeration vehicle that had suffered extensive damage to the cab."